Leke Baiyewu , Abuja


Mr . Umar Suleiman, whose daughter , Khadija, was abducted in the Kuje area of the Federal Capital Territory on November 19, 2016, has claimed that the two - year -old is being kept somewhere in Kano.

Suleiman, while speaking to Northern City News on the telephone on Monday , said he had confirmed that a girl, whose body was found under a bridge in the Gwagwalada area of the FCT two weeks after the abduction , was not his daughter.

He stated that the body was that of another girl abducted alongside his daughter.

Suleiman said , “ I was there ; I saw the girl’ s remains ; she was not my daughter. She is still missing. The woman ( abductor) stole two children and the girl dumped under the bridge was a girl wearing diaper. My daughter stopped wearing diaper a long time ago. That day, she stole two children and one of them was on her back . I believe it was the small girl on her back that her remains were seen. ”

Suleiman told our correspondent that indications had emerged that his daughter was one of the children abducted by a syndicate in Abuja and moved to Kano.

He said, “ To be sincere , my daughter is still alive and the people (abductors) are keeping her because of the publicity. I suspect that they are keeping her, giving her food and not allowing her to go out.

“ I don’t know if you have anybody in Kano because in Kano children get missing every week, at least , three to five children. I am looking at the possibility that the syndicate may have infiltrated Abuja. It is not only my daughter who is missing in Abuja . ”

When asked how he arrived at the conclusion , Suleiman replied, “ I have the feeling that Kano is where they are keeping my daughter. I don’t know the specific place but that is where my daughter is. ”

The father, who had said he was not satisfied with the police investigation into the case , said he had involved the Department of State Services in the efforts to rescue his daughter.

“ I went to the DSS ; I even saw the Director of FCT Command. Anytime I go to his office, it does not take five minutes for me to see him . But whenever I call him for updates, he always tells me that those guys ( kidnappers ) are members of a syndicate and they ( DSS ) had not been able to make any headway but they will continue to work on it, ” he stated.

Suleiman alleged that the police asked for money to investigate his daughter ’ s abduction.

“ The first time the case was transferred to SARS , they were asking for a huge sum of money for investigations . Somebody in Lagos directed me to the CIB Command in Area 6 ( Abuja ). Less than one week after I reported the case to CIB , they were able to make arrests . I was with SARS when they were investigating the case but they did not do anything, ” he said.

When asked if the police demanded money for investigations, the FCT police spokesman, Manzah Anjuguri , denied this , saying Suleiman did not lodge any complaint when he met with him shortly after his daughter was abducted.

He promised to find out the status of the probe into Khadijah ’ s abduction , but he had yet to get back with his findings as of the time of filing this report.

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